Marc Vitali:Juan Pastor switches from his drum kit to the cajon without missing a beat. Juan Pastor: This is the cajon. It’s an Afro-Peruvian instrument that I grew up playing. Most Peruvian people know what a cajon is because a lot of them are just in houses. It’s kind of a popular thing, even for people that are not musicians, to have a cajon in their home. It’s a simple instrument. It’s a box, there’s a hole in here and it is played with your hands. It has basically two sounds, the low and the high, and it’s used for most of the Afro-Peruvian dances.